The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is focusing on and shifting
toward a Network Enabled Capability (NEC) approach for improved military
effect. This is being realised through the physical networking and coherent
integration of existing and future resources including sensors, effectors, support
services, and decision makers. This paper is a case study (for NEC) of how the
development and use of scenarios for demonstrating academic research can aid
and help manage innovation. It illustrates the development, use and application
of a multiple stakeholder scenario within the NECTISE research programme
that helped establish and exploit a collaborative multidisciplinary working
environment and how it helped manage innovative academic research. Our
experience suggests that this approach can support the engagement of multiple
stakeholders with differing perceptions and priorities and will provide a
scenario development strategy for improved research and innovation for many
other large systems
